Author: Joseph GwiltPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1424
Book Description
An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, and Practical
Author: Joseph GwiltPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1424
Book Description
American Architecture
Author: Cyril M. HarrisPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393731033
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Defines and illustrates architectural terms relating to building style, structural components, and architectural ornaments.
Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture
Author: R. Stephen SennottPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781579584337
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
"A balance of sophistication and clarity in the writing, authoritative entries, and strong cross-referencing that links archtects and structures to entries on the history and theory of the profession make this an especially useful source on a century of the world's most notable architecture. The contents feature major architects, firms, and professional issues; buildings, styles, and sites; the architecture of cities and countries; critics and historians; construction, materials, and planning topics; schools, movements, and stylistic and theoretical terms. Entries include well-selected bibliographies and illustrations."--"Reference that rocks," American Libraries, May 2005.
Encyclopedia of Architecture, Aalto, Alvar to Concrete-General Principles
Author: Joseph A. WilkesPublisher: Wiley-Interscience
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
An Unfinished Encyclopedia of Scale Figures without Architecture
Author: Michael MeredithPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0262038676
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
More than 1,000 representations of the human figure in architectural drawings by architects ranging from Aalto to Zumthor, removed from their architectural context. Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample, and MOS present their rich findings on the human presence in architectural drawings not in any chronological or other linear order, but based on the convention of the encyclopedia, thus presenting (and perhaps deliberately condoning) surprise encounters made possible by the contingency created by alphabetical order.…. From the contemporary perspective of a pluralistic world, the form of the encyclopedia may be particularly apt to represent such a vast body of material as is presented here: defying any linear historical account or master narrative, it invites the reader to construct his or her own readings of the material by establishing relationships between individual drawings. —From the foreword by Martino Stierli Throughout history, across radically different movements in Western culture, the human figure appears and reappears, in multiple guises, to remind us, the observers, of architectural purpose and of our mutual position in the world.…This encyclopedia has enlarged or reduced all figures to the same approximate scale. Meredith, Sample, and MOS have gathered them here in an unprecedented, intoxicating way, like being at a fabulous party. —From the afterword by Raymund Ryan Architects draw buildings, and the buildings they draw are usually populated by representations of the human figure—drawn, copied, collaged, or inserted—most often to suggest scale. It is impossible to represent architecture without representing the human form. This book collects more than 1,000 scale figures by 250 architects but presents them in a completely unexpected way: it removes them from their architectural context, displaying them on the page, buildingless, giving them lives of their own. They are presented not thematically or chronologically but encyclopedically, alphabetically by architect (Aalto to Zumthor). In serendipitous juxtapositions, the autonomous human figures appear and reappear, displaying endless variations of architecturally rendered human forms. Some architects' figures are casually scrawled; others are drawn carefully by hand or manipulated by Photoshop; some are collaged and pasted, others rendered in charcoal or watercolors. Leon Battista Alberti presents a trident-bearing god; the Ant Farm architecture group provides a naked John and Yoko; Archigram supplies its Air Hab Village with a photograph of a happy family. Without their architectural surroundings, the scale figures present themselves as architecture's refugees. They are the necessary but often overlooked reference points that give character to spaces imagined for but not yet occupied by humans. Here, they constitute a unique sourcebook and an architectural citizenry of their own.
Encyclopaedia of World Architecture
Author: Henri StierlinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Architects and Architecture
Author: Dennis SharpPublisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Pictorial Encyclopedia of Historic Architectural Plans, Details and Elements
Author: John Theodore HanemanPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486139042
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Sourcebook of inspiration for architects, designers, others. 1880 line drawings on 70 plates. Bibliography. Captions.
American Architecture
Author: William Dudley HuntPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Encyclopedia of Architectural and Engineering Feats
Author: Donald LangmeadPublisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Alphabetically arranged entries profile more than two hundred architectural and engineering achievements from all over the world from early civilization to the present.